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; : “Respectabie 3 Inteilectuat Front:  Followin fund ~
mental Communist principles for mass moverent sits (better,
than the JCP itself follows these tenets), the ex-JCP _.
organizers of BEREIREN kept themseivos in’ the background |

‘and lined up 2 number of prominent Jepanese progressive .\--
intellectuals and leftist cultured persons to front for _
BEHEIREN, The choice of ODA Makoto, ex-Fulbrighter and .- ~
popular young novelist, to b@ the chief front man ~ Chair=
man - was an extremely lucky stroke for BEERIREN. ODA has
‘taken to this grand-standing, front work liko a duck to .
water. it has given him 2 chance to give unbridled vent to”
his own latent anti-American foolings, puffed him up to the ° 7
extent that he has been dubbed “the emperor" by other BEHEIREN vot
activists, and given him at long last an ideological mission » |...
to pursue. ‘YOSHIKAWA has performed magnificently in feeding ces
ODA's ege needs and in infusing and indoctrinating ODA se ...3....
that his words and actions take on sufficiently virulent
anti-American overtones. GDA has served another vital . ;
function for BEHEIREN by recruiting a sizeable number of. an
‘fellow intellectuzis te join the ranks of BEREIREN activists. _ can
(Attachment 1 is a listing of a number of those Japanese who |...
‘have been identified as active BEBEIREN Suppor tors | or sympa~
thizers.) .

or; anizational Development: In dts 2- 1/2 ‘year history, =.
BEERTREN” aB not appreciably changed its organizational format, ..
‘although it has moved its office three tines and modified its. -—
mame even oftener. BEREIREN is not a “mass organization”, hex, mo
cause it has had no sizeable popular backing to the present -
tine. Its hard core, secretariat organization is run by . :
YOSHIKAWA and his lieutenants. Its public image, intelicctual

front is led by ODA, and given body by a:score of like-minded —
“intellectual friends of ODA and YOSHXKAGA, who form the loose -
body of BEHEIREN's activist leadership.: Under this BEMEIREN
dJeadership superstructure lies a paltry base of only several -
‘hundred BEHEIREN “rank-and-file“:supporters, mostly young =."
‘Japanese students. Organizationally, BEREIREN has no forms]
menbership system, so its base of supporters is fluid and not.
precisely measur2ble.: However, the base support for EEHEIREN °.
-has definitely been on the upswing during 1967, and made such. *

notable strides during the past summer that JCP Headquarters =.
officials finally felt conStrained to note with concern. that =.
BEREIREN was beginning to drain off a growing number of-pro- °°
‘gressive youth who otherwise would have been absorbed into 9 9...
the JCP's own youth movement. BEERIREN leaders have tried to...
help this growth along by setting up a youth section, calling :

it "Young BEHEIREN.” BEERIREN's imaginative actions and . oO
. publicity-conscious programs have been oeponsibio Lor: its *

fos recent growth, aad this peried of Grows seens to be now en


the verge’ of ¢ renily pieking « up speed and momentum.” ‘Ag a ‘result ar
of its role in the case of the four deserting sailors, BEWEIREN ~~
‘has reaped bountiful publicity, has succeeded in touching a coe
- delicate Jnpanese. public nerve of sympathy and pacifism, open- =) -
ing a floodgate of support for BEHEIREN from a1] over Japan. -
When this case fades from the limelight, it’ is still most .

likely that a fair percentage of current wave of popular ~ a
‘ support for ett will solid ermanent mass backing, —

x the first time ES ._meandng ul base to. Tare

_ Support te future activities,

eB | Activities and Accomplishnents: " REHEIREN has engaged”
in a number of propaganda actions, and participated in inter- -
national anti-Vietnam War activities. It has tried to co- |.
operate with certain front activities in Japan controlied by
‘the JCP, most notably the Japan Committee to Investigate War -
Crimes in Vietnam activitiés, which culminated in the Tokyo —
- Court of last Atigust, but has been soundly and rudely rebuffed
-by the JCP... In spite of this, BEHEIREN bas churned along at. °
: its own pace, with a continuing series of anti-Vietnan war: --
_ actions, most of them related in some way to the American coe aoe
“pacifist movement. In this regard, BEHEIREN has succeeded in. -
‘cornering a virtual monopoly on Japanese contacts with the U.S. =).
“ pacizist movements, and has effectually capitalized on this to
promote its own action program. The case of the four deserting |
sailors, while an -spparent lucky windfall for BEHEIREN, only
points up the fact that BEHEIREN, through past organizational .
‘work and promotional activities, was “johnny~on-the-spot",
‘vyeady and capable (unique in Japan in this regard) to take |
. the ball and run with it. BEHEIREN ran all the way in this
- case and scored its most notable success since it was organized. |.
- (Attachment 2 is a listing of BERRIREN's more notable activitios
_ since its founding. Attachment 3 is a partial listing of . :
American and other foreign persons kno to have been an.
contact with or . cooperated with BEHEI > ae “ a

“The Case of the Four Sailor Doserters and SEBEIREN.

v ls How It Started: The consensus” of all ‘available overt -
medina material, with no recorded dissent, indicates that the

~ four sailors voluntarily left their ship, went AWOL, and ended |
up wallowing around Tokyo's hippie-land. = Precisely what. personal :
grievances prompted the four to embark on this mis-adventure is es
not yet known. But, up to this point, the four could fairly be _
“ gategorized ag misguided youngsters, gone astray in a foreign’. :
Zand, and due to get slapped back in line with traditional . we

: Navy justice when they finally decided to stop the fun and go.

- haek to the BMAP. So far, this made their canes far from eee

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? How It Becare an Incident: But nstead of returning to
theirs ship. of their own Volition or being apprehended by tha
Shore Patrol, the four made contact with BBHEIREN leaders.
Again, press reports indicate that ‘this was just a coincidence,
that. there was no pre-planning by the four to contact BEHEIREN.
There are ‘Ro available overt nor ‘covert reports that indicate
otherwise.’ But, once the BEHEIREN people nade contact, they .
recognized. the potential inmediately and: moved fast for the
xill.:: _Gttachnent 4 fe a Yoniuri Newspaper clipping, 22 Nov~-
ember 1967, that is both a representative and comprehensive —
account of this phase of the case.’. Even if this article .
should contzin some minor inaccuracies, the basic dine seens
actual aad bas not been challenged cleewhere. Yo aye a.

re ‘RETIEIREN Takes over: hen: the ‘four made contact with
“RBEEEIREN, it puddeniy becase an entirely different ballgane. .
-BEHSIREN had everything needed to capitalize on this: veteran
activist leaders who are experieuced enough to recognize the ,
‘windfall that had come their way; an apparatus that could .
“provide hiding places for the four; long standing liaison.

- contacts with Soviet Embassy officials for use in piecning
.@xit from Japan; solid conta reliable American - -
*pacifists with whom the bona fides of the four sailors could |
be checked; money and organization to capitalize on the |.

: propaganda potential (such as preparing a movie film for the
initial BEHEIREN press conference announcing the desertion, - of
prepared more likely than not by BEHRIREN stalvart

Kein an independent film producer)? and Bugiish epeaking

.* ° ‘The ) BERRTREN Appar aratus At Work: - “Whe many of the. a
anall pieces of this puzzle, which Soule put the whole case an
proper detailed chronological order and elininste speculation
on minor points, are still missing, enough is known now, .
through overt and covert sources, that the picture of BEYEIREN's
=adept handling of this case shines through clearly. The fLollow~-
ing Sloments » ail part of. the BEEDIREN APPASTUS 5 make. “Up the ae

ule of: the ‘picture B 4

+t, we te icky

; “eel? a) Hide-out:. When EBERCIREN got hold of the four on _ v4 7
F about’ 26 October, they had to be hiden ont for the appr sfente” 7
two. week period until their exit fron Japan could be arranged...
" This presented BEHEIREN no. ereat logistical problem. .A number.”
ef the EESSIREN activist leaders have homes vell suited to an
* "harboring jugitives. For example, BEHEIREN activist leader | ~
has 2 villa hidden avay in Chigasaki, which
“was used on the night of 12 September for a meeting of about —.
-20 top BEEEIEEN leaders, and which would be highly suitable | a,


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~ fer hiding the four desorters. Other private.d -
’ longing; to BEXEIREN leaders and loyal eae
u remanent both ‘the Kanto and Kansai sreas,

od _ b) BELEIREN/Soviet Linison: PEBEINEN Seeretaxy | Genera
- FOSUIEANA has maintained periodic contact with Soviet Embassy
officials for years. BEYSIREN Chairman ODA hes met Soviet
_ Peace Committee officials in Hoscow. - The exact rears of how —
- this Jiaison was accomplished in this case is precisely known_
(from a covert phone tap on the Soviet Embassy's line. <A full
Ltranscript. is available of two phone calis{[made on
. first by Brian o Chief Press Attache Nikolay
“ Vasilyevich, and second by YOSINKAWA to First Secretary oo
Sergey D. Anisinov, urgently requesting a private mecting ae
later that day to discuss “an extremely important, extrencly:_
7 delicate matter", without doubt the case. o2 the four sailors.

fe Ne eb. BEREIREN/U. S. Pacifist Liaison: BENEIREN contacted’
: Dartmouth’ University professor Ernest. P. Young, who flew to °.
. Japan om & November, apparently helped BEEEIREN leaders check.

. out the bona fides of the deserters, and returned to the U.S. -.

On 11 November, (Attachment § isthe transintion of a Sankei _
. Shimbun article, dated 21 November, reporting an interview mo
with Young, giving his version of his role in this case. yo:

; 5. Esca to Yoscow: - ‘the four deserters. turned up ‘dn:
moxcow on m 20 ovenber. The press has speculeted widely and
unanimously that the four left Japan on tke Soviet passenger |

. ship Baikal on 11 November. Again, there is no dissenting =.
- opinion, overt nor covert. The only mystery concerning this
final phase of the Japanese portion of this case concerns the |°
mechanics of how the four boarded the Baikal and who assisted: —
in this manenuver. But with the sailing of the Baikal from *.
Yokohawa, BDEXSIREN coupleted its most bighiy successful and =). -
heautifully executed activity in its 2 1/2 year history. Not a
only did BEBEIREN smear the American Government's image ino 00
Japan, not only did SEHEIREN gain 2a vast amount of priceless -
. publicity that will swell the ranks of its supporters anc be
invaluable in future activitios, but BESEIREN doubtlessly - a
even made a prozit, financially, on this low budget operstion nee
~ donations are still pouring into BERLIREN Headquarters fron. wt
all over Japan “help and protect U.8 deserters”. & eee


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y SOSHTRAWA Yuichi (BEHEIREN Seoretary General) - ~ former sop’
“SS ymember . ; 2

3 ODA Wakote ‘GumEinen Chesrman) - popular novelist.
“ KAKO ion -~ Akutagaca prize winning novelist. :
.. KUBO Keinosuke | - ‘film producer and irector. o
_ sTSURUET ‘Shunsuke - Doshigha University professor ae

” TSURUMY Kazuko ~ sister of Shunsuke (thoir father is the ‘late 28
a philosopher, Yusuke)». ere eg

rt. EURUYAMA Yozo - bigh school teacher.

a KOTO Yohs 10 ~ “exaJCP (tried to ‘travel ‘te Us. ‘to: represent
” BEREIREN at October 21 demonstrations this year, but wae
7 denied, a visa to ) enter | the a. +8), .

+) TOAENAGA Iehire ~ - cartoonist
a ‘FUKASAED i Witeusada ~ ‘professor:
a AWAZU Kiyoshi + =” - graphic designer.
i. TAKADO Kanane ~ - Christian leader.
- yOSHTDA Riga - - - fim director.
“UMNTHARA Shun - = . writer.
; ‘HASEIMOTO ineo - 2 Buddhist priest
g .. HORTA Yosh ie ~- novelist. :
8. GOTO. Hiroyult - = scientist.

.. KUWABARA Takeo - - - professor & at : Kyoto 0 University.


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5 = TERAL Hinako o
oS ARAL “‘Funihiko,
a NASU Masanao - ¥
MATSUMOTO Tebiju.

_ FURHTGHT Sotsuo
SO. KUBIHANA Yukio —_ |
1. eter” "ANDO Jimbes, CHIBA IBA Hido, EGANA Take, FUSIL Hittetso, ac .
antya Ichiro, HOSHINO Yasusabure,, TOHIE: Saburo, IKBYAUA Suro,
‘ISHIDA Takeshi, ANAT Yoshiko, ASAT. Seiichi, - RATAGIRI Yuzurn, ,
KATO Shuich’, EAZAMA-Michitaro, HATSUURA Soz0, » KEBEEOHO Hasso, |
KITAKOSI Satoshi, KOBAYASHI Bhoichiro, KOWATSU Sakyo,
‘ROBAVASEI Tomi, KUNO Osamu (shu), KURODA Hidetoshi, BARDYAMA
Masao, MIDORIKAWA Toru, WIZUSAWA Yana, NORITAKE Ichiro, fs, fe
“MUCHAKY Seskyo, MURARATSU Hizo, NISHIO Noboru, RONURA Koichi,
‘ososat Terus,, OTSUKOISU Yoshiko, “SERIZAWA Tac, SRA SEIS
SHINMERA Takeshi, SHISHIDO Hiroshi, SUGIURA Hitsuo, SUGIYANA »
‘Tatsusard, SUZUKI Masahira, ‘TAKEUCHI Yoshitono, WADA Ragahisa, :
YAMADA Munenitsu, YAHADA ‘Toshio, YANAGUCHT Kosaku, YAMANESHT | |
ELichi, YASUDA Takeshi, YOSHINO Genzabure, YOSHIFARA Koichiro,,
“ ORAMOTO Taro, MATSUMOTO Seicho, BI Rokusuke, THOT Toke, =
* AWAYA Noriko _EATO Yoshiro, SUTROYAMA Saburo, TAKAHASHE
—_ Takotono, ODAGIRI Hideo, ORUMA Hinoru, SANS Kenji, SUZUEI
oe % Hichiniko, RUBATA Hanya, SHINGHARA HNGHARA Seiei, MARUTAIA funio,

SEG CRET Tr


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“Although not recorded here, |
Bre. ex-JCP BORbELS |.”


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Regular once~per-nonth demonstrations at 2 public ‘park in’
Tokyo, “consisting « of anti~Anerican ,Seeeches and tellowed by street

Sa. Am all ‘night wv “teach-in* with BEHEINEN activist. Jeadors, we
elong with special guest, U. S. pacifist Carl Oglesby (Chairuan ¢ of.
. the ‘Students, gor a Denocratic Society.) . ro. fal.

3. A full page advertisenent in the. New York Tines. ae Noveabor
1965) » Lollowed by another full pare ad in the Washington Fost: oo
; G Aprid 1967), appealing to Americans, to stop the war in Vietnan. 7

he we ‘Meet in Conference of Two Rations ‘for Peace in Vietnam, an
hold in “Tokyo in August 1966, and attended by BEHEIREN activists and -
“seven U.S. pacifist leaders (including Dave Dellinger), and observers
from France, England, Canada, the USSR, Fokistan,. end Mongolia. os

2 52° § mass meeting in Tokyo ‘in ‘October 1966, guest speakers of
. which were Preach pacifists » sean-Paul Sartre and Simone de. Beaavoiz .

- 65 “Nationwide tours of Japan for Lectures and peace ‘rall ges for .
such anti-Vietnan war pacifists as Professor Howard Sinn and the late

te of the Tnited States, Claude e Bourdet ‘of Frances and Thica
Nhat Hanh of South Vietnam. # Tomige tance :

a oA mass meeting ‘in Tokyo in | January. 1967, sponsored oe
‘BREET and featuring u.5. folk singer and. pacifist Joan Baez.

ee 7: : A continuing program of direct distribution of panphiets to.
“we S. troops stationed in Japan, and those coming to Janan on. ‘warships, ’
, and for rest or hospitalization fron Vietnaz. Lowey

: gy: ‘Participation by ‘two BEREIREN activist leaders (Kyoto. °-

° University professor KUWABARA Takeo and International Rouse staffer
TSURUUI Yosbikyuict taking advantage of a trip to the U.S. to attend”

a Hon-political Japan-fmerica Congress on Cultural Problems} in. -.-_.
anti-Vietnam war Speech rallies and cenonstrations at Dartmouth ne

University in early Hay 1967, followed by an unsuccessful attempt. .

£0 invite Cassius Clay to visit Japan on -bebalf of ‘BEEEIREN.

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to our on bonalt of  BENSTARH, ‘Soviet: poet ‘Yevgeni Yovtu ughenke,
that has not, yet reached fruition but “is sti por” aS

"* “participation in the Stockholm July 1967 “World Conferezee 2
yiotsen," by sending two BENE IREN activist leaders as dolegates.

12° Cooperation ‘with the! ‘v. Ss. Qankers,: pacifists, and Earle
ynolds iu sending the yacht “Phoenix” with medical 2id, first to -
jphong, then on o second trip in the Fall of 1967, secking but

yatiing to find tandfal1. to deliver medical nid to > edthor North or ° -
gouth Vietnam, ee |

13.  Rttenpted, “put failed due to inability to , obtain Uv. ‘Ss. visa,
to send a BEHEIREN activist leader (HUTO Ichiyo) to the U.S. to a
participate in the 21 ‘October 1967 Bnti-\ tetuem War denoastrations. oo

a wali ‘Currently carrying out: a ‘fund rais ing canpaiga to send an
aid ship to. North Vietnam. In this, and other activities, DEHEIREN »
leaders are. maintaining ever closer liaison contact with their . —
counterparts abroad, such as the French “Coiiitet Vietnan Rational Sin
in an effort to generate public stipport for this aid ship
raising campaign, BEMEIREN succeeded in issuing a public appeal,

under the endorsing signatures of Tokyo Governor MINOBE Ryokichi and
Yokohama Mayor ASUKATA Fehsoe as + Wolk as a the 1 usual intellectuals. So

7 4s. ; ‘In October 1967, 1 BERRIREN solicited appioval: ‘to ‘hod anti-.
Vietnam War demonstrations in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo,
expecting ta be denied and then intending to make | ‘this denial a court
test case. Instead, BEEEIREN was given this’ permission, and conducted
two orderly and well-publicized denonstrations in ‘front of the Americar
Enbassy, garnering a lerger public turn out of participants than in.
any Breve ane ‘BEREIREN-sponsored Genonstration. | ,

16. Assisted. ‘and abetted the defection to the USSR of four. a
American sailors from the U.S. Navy carrier ‘intrepid. Following this —
success, BEMEIREN's most effective activity to date, BSEEIREN leaders |
are Organizing a permanent “underground railwny" of Japanese intell— _
ectuals cho will volunteer their hones as possible “way stope" for = |

hiding future U.S. - military ¢ desorters ‘that BENE IBEN now r hopes * to.

other dotaiis, seo 5 Yokyo intelligence reporting
11547, 31 Hay 1966 .

EST-12046, 14 October 1966 7 ws .

i 32680, 10 Mey 1967)... ae
22(FIJT-L2851, 5 July 1967" wo

IE ST-1IG81, & September 1967 .

Q 13154, 27 Septenber 1967 .

13903, 22 Nevember 1967.

- Also, ( AES 8796, il Jaly 1967:


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ATTACHMENT 30

cat *

: partial ‘Listing of of Anertcan and Other Foreign
: Persons Known to Have Been in Contact with or

HL _Looperated with BERRIEN . a

: David Uckeynolds (Chairman, War Resisters'

OO League) :

a. 5. Buste > (now deceased)

. Charlotte Thurber |

(Hiss) Quentin Bascett (Students for a Denocratd
; . Society) |

Murray Lovin | Goston uw professor

Se Barbara Deming Ussostnte editor of : Liberation)
2 Joan Baez s folk singer)


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a Ira  worris (paris expatriate)

7 Otto Haisan (phonetic, Hew York eaty penco activis st) ;

Barbara and Rarle Reyoolds (divorced but separately

: - petive iong-tine xesidenta
dn Japan). - .

oa Willian Re ‘Christensen Con American pact fist drifter,
-.Who gave BEDEIREN its first:

: SEperience in the ssummer of

. 2866 in exploiting for pro-.

~ paganda in Japan, and then in

- avranging the onward journey

.. Of an American who wanted to”

. defect to the USSB)

(head-shaved ‘pacifist ‘and "converted" -
_ Buddhist priest, knew to be in ...0 |

' yegular contact with he. Soviet
_ Embassy. din Tokyo) ©

Brian Victoria

ur. widdowby ‘(fou, phonetic, "chief of the Quaker
7 Tae Heace Action movement in the wv. Ss"). :

. as unidentified ‘Anerdcan of Japanese descent, trom oO
Hawaii, who ds- currently a student at Waseda. Univereity’

Kosaku Yamaguchi “(reportedly born ‘in ‘U.S., ’ “present _

 “@ktizenship status unclear) (formerly | ;
was & professor at Honoyana University
40 Osaka, but has been teachin, at the”
niversity of Calizornia in Berkeley |

Other Fore igners. : ba

“) wanada Kotov, ‘USSR ‘Goviet Peace Coanitteo)
peenenenrenereee ee

Sisude Bourdet,, Francs (french
: z : iy, the Viet opie) eS
Posey. Dutt, ‘ereat Britain Campa for uciea: Bis- go |

‘James ‘Endteott: Canada (ora Pence | Bounces)
"Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistan ma wae

\ Gabita Muslepov,. USSR
“. — Oe

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Bra. Erdeneba t Ojon, Mongolia
& Konstentin Shugnov, USsR

Francis Marcel Kaha, | ‘France © (Conttet Vietnam
re _ Rational) : ‘
~ Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone ‘de Beauvoir France
eo

A

Thich What Hanh, | South Vietnam .

Thig is not, by any means, a complete listing, nor.’
‘does it necessarily list BEHSIREN's most important -
activist contacts abroad. But this List is re-- .
-presentative in showing the breadth of BEHZIREN

jizison abroad, particularly with the American
“new ieft'

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for the Far. East
re ; aa Net Worriec
” Sources ; np. 7 ai var, | When he. first met the deser
day thay maaan “sald Tues [ata renen corer ees Pennies put rea gPearealh
Way: that the four ‘Americans | y 3: Ce Ty Uneonte ne N BP said quite
could have bodrded the ship by! - Yoshikawa Said “that :the .de/ He said “the Sesetinrs ap.
Special “Bangway for Soviet |; rst. Wanted ~. to" live parently . enjoyed hipple *. life
. ; iy in-Jdpan ‘and aon ed iving on cheap “Japanese food

“ize ANd — drink such as ‘udon

(noodles) und shochu, ° -
’. He said the four Americans

Japan irregularly
n_ November 17

guard at another gangway; for
ordinary - passengers when ‘222
listed... . passengers, : -
“elght = America Ns,

Japan If popes vein Japan, and
: : : "the f “Possible in ‘okyo. a
Chama eerere i de; US Pritt Naito and his friend. Yamao
.. The: watchmen , Yo.

Py oe @ | pended to ask the help of the.
. : " : eS . : : “and = delivered the:
‘that ‘they didnot . “sald.” oe tour ren and

“son whe Was-not ‘on’ the pas . .- ifour men ito, the Rehelren.
y Senger .. Nst.. board a Fe L-Nalto,." 20 “pain : t
though the ord told ‘The : Yomiurij all the four

mao, a-hippie|had no interest in communist
1 member : of -the| ideology,’ . eee nan
acted as go-betweens| He sald the four must '}
‘Geserters” ang. - the] decided to go to some..ncu
Behetren, rae JCountry -via the -Soviet*: ;
paito . said “-he met two ‘offafter they ‘learned that hey:
jthe. . four. deserters—Airman, could: not. live in’ Japan. + ‘f
Dick. ley..19, and Alrman]|*.-.A spokesman. forthe Justica i
e A. Lindner, 19—at a -hip-+ Ministry * said “Tuesday that
fn | Shinjuku] there Was -, nothing: legally
“yop Wwrong! in the ‘four Americans
‘Américans leaving Japan because the ad-|:
and other! Ministrative “agreement ‘in the!
which y /Japan-US Security Treaty gua-|
wed from their. Yantees US - mii ry -personnel
bpie friends hang-.the right to come, to stay
8 ing around: the Shinjuku: area, Or leave Japan,
d. not to ‘do go.‘ -| ‘Bailey. and“ Lindner and the’,
He neither affirmed wior den ie Oo aemnan bn
ed the report ‘that the Amer. ‘Prentice - Cr, oe
feans left Japan by thé’ Baikal 20—went - around Inu
n November .11,°; . ae Naito. gaid.. . vote ‘
It was the. Behelren’ “which | ¢ Naito’ sald he let Bail and 6 US authorities
| qmuounced «for: the, frst | time Lindner ‘sta ‘overnight *y his made. an official request to the
me aesertion of the four crew house .in Way amiyacho,.. Neri-'Japanese police to search’ for
an mia. Octet. “to -o8-lthem, he added, :
nom . vt He. also said there. were no
apanese Jaws allowing charges

specla

rees eaid that
possible” that the
| ranged ‘the deserters’ exit, --. ;
Pons Beheiren Pledge ' pi
’ Yuichi Yoshikawa, Secretary:
Seneral of ‘the. Japan Peace-For

exit]

“ie thelr
ih 11, it

anege People who: *
ithe - Americans “in J
jhelped - their departu
(Soviet. Union,

apan and
re to the


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Went! to Tokyo and Tried to Dissuade Them; o>.” aa
“ Frobably Escaped from “apan on. the 12th or the 13th . | 7
* (New York, ' November 20, Correspondent Tadashi ONODERA}"*
= Ernest Pai YOUNG of Dartmouth College in the U. 5.5 ‘consented to an interview
with. this . ‘reporter on the question of the four American seamen who deserted
from the U.S. aircraft carrier Intrepid. ‘At the interview held on the 19th,
«Professor YOUNG clarified that the.:Peace for Vietnam Association : ‘(Beheiren,
’ with Makoto ODA acting as its ‘vepresentative) | contacted an anti-war organiza~
‘tion in ‘the U.S., and at this, Professor YOUNG hurriedly wisited Tokyo, and -
meeting ‘the four seamen in a room in an apartment ‘house in Tokyo on the 9th
‘and 10th; tried to persuade them to return. In. regard . to ‘the pies ent ‘where
‘abouts - ‘Of: these .four seamen, he. made tthe ‘noteworthy, statement’ “that “those
¢’four were still in Japan, up. until, the. een the HRB phen t

~~ ~ tiny; aia.y you g0 to: Japan? wees we
. professor: | “Beheiren ‘contacted ‘David “DERRINGER, ‘a , pacifist’ activist
in the U.S., asking him to "send someone to Japan to hear the stories of
ythe four seamen. and announce them in the U.S." I have been in Japan’ twic
and I also once served as special. assistant to Ambassador REISCHAUER. ©
During that time, I became friends with Beheiren representative’ ODA' and”
yiiother intellectuals in Japan. It was for these reasons that I was given
vthis: Vieteam wars I personally have | never, ,participated,, actively in Fhe

: ; Professor::. i. arrived, in Haneda ¢ on | November. 8, “and met the four seamen
oon the 9th and the. 10th... The place of interview was in an apartment house”
&4in Tokyo, but I -cannot say. at. this time where that apartment, house was and -
-twho owned it,.-However, on both days, I talked. ‘fully with. these. four seamen,
efor more than three hours. on each occasion (according. to an investigation -:
i made by the public security authorities, Professor. YOUNG. arrived in, Japan
toward the evening of the 8th, and stayed at Hotel Tanakanwa in Shiba,
: Minato-ku, until: ‘the: morning of ‘the. p-adth).... *

~ professor's - “the desertion’ was. 5 conpletely the ‘decision. of ‘these four ||.
persons. . It seems that the .four seamen decided not to return. to the ship, oe
+.Wwhen the Intrepid - entered. Yokosuka, Port on October 173; and they | were pere «-

ay mitted to go ashore for rest for one week. My impression.on meeting these’ ~~

jj four seamen was that they wera, definitely not ‘deserting for the purpose of
: ch selfeadvertisement or that they. were giving false reasons. I an, convinced a
‘that they deserted really. out of doubt. about. the Nietnam, Ware a oe |

po. oad a

oo what were . the movements of. ‘the. foun, after, they desertear®

; ” professor: On the night of ‘the 23rd, two ‘days before ‘the “Intrepid
yas: due to.sail, the four went to Shinjuku, and told the people whom they |
_ met at 4 bar they happened to visit, that "we ave fed up with war." The.
:,,, Japanese who heard them sympathized "with them,: and. atone time, the four -
: lived with seme hippies (according ‘to this paper’ s investigations, they -
\° dnelude Mr, K., a student of Tokyo University's Liberal Arts Department , © —
, and Nanguard : artist Ay who gather at Fugetsudo in a Shinjuku. ) ‘Finally, wo


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they were taken: to Beheiren by a student ‘who spoke English (according + to.
this paper's investigation, this was Mr. S., a Waseda Univer sity student). 7

Ne that, _ they” were hidden by Beheiren. I cannot say where @ they. were.
ONet a l s wep .:

Professors: ty ‘purpose in 1 yiedting Japan was to: ‘dissuade the; four. ae
I explained to. them what the results of their desertion would be. I even |:
told them that they would never again be permitted to stand on American soil; .
their fatherland.*:. At the time I met: “them ,- it. was. still. at.a-stage where. ;
‘they. would only receive light punishment , they weported back immediately,
saying that: they "had missed their ship. lowever their. determination was

Firm) vend my persuasion had: ‘m9 effects

+e The ‘four! “seamen's ‘desertion + was: ‘announced: in. ‘the form of a press. -. ce:
interview given by Beheiren, :- . Were there. no. facts of their haying.b been
forced t tov “desert, during © that, Poried? & rf :

. stoo However, ‘they firmly denied :
any fact of their having been £ forced, saying ‘that they had voluntarily 7
-consulted Beheiren as to whether they should publicly. announce the >»
intention to desert, and, aad 80, in Nhat form this should be made. ae

imnere are ‘the four seamen. Row, and where ¢ are they planning to go?

7 ‘Professor: 1 am certain that the ‘four: of “them were ‘still in Japan,
up ‘yntil the lith, the day I left for home. However, they already knew .
fully well that it was not possible for them to obtain asylum in Japan...
They even said that "we will probably have to go to some third nation, |
which is neutral," (The public security authorities judge that. the four
seamen left Japan immediately after Mr. YOUNG's persuasion, and consider that
they: probabiy were smuggled out: of Japan -after-the l0th,:and before the -
evening .of ‘the 13th, when : ..-Beheiren. announced their ‘desertion. ata press
‘conference, |. However, Mr, YOUNG says ‘chat the .four seamen, were in ‘Japan up.
until the night of the ilth.. : Therefore, the, possibility .is strong that they

“between. ‘the ‘night of :the. ith and the .

: " peltcseor: “When “the ‘fLlms ‘were. ‘publicly hown there was bigt excitement,
with rows and rows of television and. :press cameramen.’ TI thought I would be~
exposed to persistent questioning by the FBI and the CIA, after I returned..
shome, but. so, far, I have only. been, questioned once . by: the. wNavy.'s. Intelligence.
“Seetion , about the circumstances, ;. «Et, seems that. -American , authorities con-
cerned do not want to make: ‘too big, a fuss ‘over the matter. a

we ‘Profissor: A certain. ‘television ‘station- ‘asked, “the ‘mother: of, one of
{the four men. about her son's. life..;, This mother was completely . ‘perplexed;
saying: "My son-is.a. most. average - American: youth. »- His :school records
were quite, ordinary, . and he. liked sports.,:, just:: Like; “any. other student.’ oe
. cannot . ‘mderetand why. he; acted iin such a: ways :


